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Image by CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Pic by Neil Palmer (CIAT). A handheld GPS device, which is one of the central technologies in a new CIAT project on site-specific agriculture. The Colombia-based initiative will collect, process and aggregate information on the planting decisions of hundreds of the country’s fruit farmers to help them make the best choices. Please credit accordingly and let us know when you use a CIAT pic. Contact n.palmer@cgiar.org
Chip Moves Satnav Indoors
Currently, the chips in most smartphones and vehicle satnav systems rely mainly on data from US-owned GPS satellites for guidance. This requires a line-of-sight from the device to the satellite. That is why they can struggle to get a fix in cities …
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LightSquared Will Be a 'dumb Pipe,' CEO Says
Ahuja envisions LightSquared's hybrid network as offering pure connectivity to be sold through partners, which so far include Sprint Nextel, Leap Wireless, Best Buy and several other service providers. Those partners, and device and application …
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Avenza Launches PDF Maps App for iOS
More than just a PDF map viewing tool, Avenza's PDF Maps app provides customers the best of both worlds – a variety of interactive maps from established paper map pubblishers with interactive and GPS functionality of digital devices. …
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